A letter from Dr. Dickson to his medical brethren, relative to the School of Physic in this kingdom / [Stephen Dickson].

  • Dickson, Stephen
Date:
1795
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Credit: A letter from Dr. Dickson to his medical brethren, relative to the School of Physic in this kingdom / [Stephen Dickson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] “ And the college is decidedly of opinion that “ no other mode of ele&ion is equally advanta- “ geous to the inflitution. <c And that the power of removal fhould be “ veiled in the vifitors of the faid college of phy- c< ficians. “ Signed by order, “ Edmd. Cullen.’* v * > This remonftrance (which, by the bye, was fruitlefs) (hews how little fatisfied the college of phyficians were with the fchemes of the pro- voll and the univerfity engrafted upon their plan. But the following circumftance deferves at this time efpecial remark ; that none of thefe documents, neither the evidences in the records of parliament, nor the minutes of the college of phyficians rela- tive to thefe tranfa&ions, afford any indication on the part of the provoft, or of any of the commit- tee of thehoufe of commons, of altering the plan of the college of phyficians with regard to the fa- laries of the profeffors--other than that by abfo- lutely confining the fupport of three of the pro- pofed profefTors to the funds of the univerfity, (in confideration of the univerfity lecturers being con- flituted profeffors) a faving or furplus might cer- tainly accrue out of Sir Patrick Dun’s funds, by means whereof the ellablifhment of clinical lec- tures could be affured. , rIle :'10'c theme, however, proved abortive °r this time, by the houfe of lords disproving nf